Biography
Andy Warhol defined the Pop Art Movement in the United States. He is known for works that mimic the style of advertisements, which at the time were viewed as a shocking embrace of “low art”. His most famous works include a series of Campbell’s Soup Cans, Electric Chairs, and celebrity portraits of Marilyn Monroe, Jackie Kennedy, and Elvis Presley.
He responded to mass media culture in a unique way that captivated the public, as his fame grew, Warhol built a studio called The Factory on 47th street. There he found himself surrounded by an entourage of eccentrics he called the “Superstars,” with whom he created a number of experimental films, such as Sleep, Chelsea Girls, and Empire, which were banned by the police and labelled as ‘vulgar’.
A former member of Warhol’s entourage, attempted to kill the artist and others outside of The Factory in 1968. Narrowly surviving, Warhol withdrew from his circle and choose to focus on creating a series of celebrity portraits.
Warhol was a gay man who kept much of his private life a secret, with occasional references to his sexuality through art. He died at age 58 in 1987 due to complications following an operation. Today, his works are held in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the Tate Gallery in London, among others. A major retrospective of Warhol’s work took place at the Whitney Museum of Art in New York in 2019.
Born: 1928
Died: 1987
Education: Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh
Exhibitions
Select Exhibitions
2013–2014
De Chirico / Warhol: Self-Portraits, Galerie Andrea Caratsch, St. Moritz, Switzerland
2013
Pop Art Accrochage, Fluegel-Roncak Gallery, Nuremberg, Germany
Andy Warhol – Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, Utica, USA
Le Pont – MAC Musées d´Art Contemporain Marseille, Marseille, France
This is Not a Love Song – La Virreina – Centre de la Imatge, Barcelona, Spain
En suspension – FRAC – Pays de la Loire, Carquefou, France
Neuerwerbungen FrÜhjahr 2013 – Galerie Ludorff, Dusseldorf, Germany
Selections from the Mary and Michael J. Tatalovich Collection – Haggerty Museum of Art, Milwaukee, USA
The Whole Earth – Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
Out [o] Fashion Photography: Embracing Beauty – Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, USA
The Polaroid Years – The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie, USA
Iconic Moments – Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, USA
Andy Warhol – Pop Art Classics – Galerie Fluegel-Roncak, Nuremberg, Germany
Von Kopf bis Fuß – Porträts und Menschenbilder in der Sammlung Würth – Kunsthalle Würth, Schwäbisch Hall, Germany
Don’t Be Shy, Don’t Hold Back – The Logan Collection At Sfmoma – San Francisco Museum of Modern Art – SFMOMA, San Francisco, USA
Beg, Borrow and Steal – Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, USA
Legacy: The Emily Fisher Landau Collection – Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, USA
The Pop Object: The Still Life Tradition in Pop Art – Acquavella Galleries, Inc., New York, USA
The Lyon, the Which and the Warhol – Hofstra University Museum, Hempstead, USA
Creating Myth and Icon – Plains Art Museum, Fargo, USA
The 60s In The Guggenheim Collections. From Informel To Pop Art – Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, Italy
Light Sensitive – Nasher Museum of Art, Durham, USA
Dialog Über Grenzen – Die Sammlung Riese – KOG – Kunstforum Ostdeutsche Galerie, Regensburg, Germany
Andy Warhol – Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
Pinups & Portraits – IKON Ltd, Santa Monica, USA
Il Guggenheim. L’avanguardia americana 1945–1980 – Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy
Group Show – Gagosian Gallery, Hong Kong
Andy Warhol: Works on Paper – Sperone Westwater Gallery, Lugano, Italy
Andy Warhol: Works on Paper – Sperone Westwater Gallery, New York, USA
Andy Warhol- Pop Art – Galerie der Stadt Tuttlingen, Tuttlingen, Germany
Shooting Stars: Publicity Stills from Early Hollywood and Portraits by Andy Warhol – The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Andy Warhol – Fifteen Minutes of Fame – Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz, Austria
Andy Warhol: Polaroids 1974 – 1987 – The Luckman Fine Arts Complex, Los Angeles, USA
Warhol – Early Drawings – Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark
2012
Regarding Warhol: Fifty Artists, Fifty Years, The Metropolitan Museum, New York, USA
Andy Warhol, 15 Minutes Eternal, Artscience Museum, Marina Bay Sands, Singapore. Traveled to Hong Kong Museum of Art
Andy Warhol: Fame and Misfortune, McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, USA
Portraits of Andy Warhol, Ibercaja Obra Social, Zaragoza, Spain. Travelled to Contemporary Art Center of Virginia
2011
Villa Schöningen, Potsdam, Germany
Rivoluzione Warhol, Centro Saint Benin, Aosta, Italy
Picasso to Warhol: Twelve Modern Masters, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, USA
Andy Warhol, Shadows, 1978-1979, Hirshorn Museum, Washington D.C.
Warhol Headlines, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Travelled to Museum fur Modern Kunst, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte
Andy Warhol and Elizabeth Taylor, Gagosian Gallery, New York, USA
Warhol and Basquiat, Arken Museum of Modern Art, Ishoj, Denmark
Warhol and the Diva, The Lowry, Salford Quays, England
Andy Warhol: Ten Portraits of Jews in the Twentieth Century, Waddeson Manor, Buckinghamshire, England
Warhol. Property from the Collection of Gregory McCoy, The Lawrenceville School, Lawrenceville, USA
Andy Warhol: Artists Rooms, Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton, England
American Icons: Andy Warhol and Cars, Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, USA
Graphite on Paper: Andy Warhol Drawings, Kantor Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Andy Warhol: Cowboys and Indians, Rockwell Museum of Western Art, Corning, USA
2010
Deeply Superficial: Warhol’s Voyeurism, Muscarelle Museum of Art, Williamsburg, USA (solo)
Andy Warhol in the 1980s, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, USA (solo)
Faces of Warhol, Focus Exhibition in Three Installments, Museum of Art and Archaeology, University of Missouri, Columbia, USA (solo)
2009
Le grand monde d’Andy Warhol, Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, France (solo)
Andy Warhol Portraits, Greenfield Sacks Gallery, Santa Monica, USA (solo)
Andy Warhol: Through a Glass Starkly, George Segal Gallery, Montclair State University, Montclair, USA (solo)
Warhol Live, The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, USA; Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, San Francisco, USA (solo)
Andy Warhol, Mr. America, Biblioteca Luis Angel Arango, Bogota, Colombia (solo)
Twisted Pair: Marcel Duchamp and Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, USA
Warhol TV, La Maison Rouge, Paris, France (solo)
Andy Warhol: Pop Politics, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, USA (solo)
The Prints of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again), San Jose Museum of Art San Jose, USA (solo)
Andy Warhol: Von Marilyn Bis Mao, Horst-Janssen-Museum, Oldenberg, Germany (solo)
Warhol from the Sonnabend Collection, Gagosian Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
Andy Warhol, The Museum Chiang Kai-Shek Memorial, Taipei, Taiwan (solo)
Warhol Live, The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Canada (solo)
Andy Warhol: Crossroads, Domus Artium (DA2), Salamanca, Spain (solo)
Art for Everyday: Andy Warhol from Object to Practice and Back Again, Museu De Arte Contemporanea Niteroi, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil (solo)
Andy Warhol: Cowboys and Indians, Mint Museum of Art Charlotte, USA (solo)
Andy Warhol: 15 Weeks of Fame, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, USA (solo)
Warhol’s Jews: Ten Portraits Reconsidered, The Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, USA (solo)
Andy Warhol Portfolios: Life and Legends, Mint Museum of Art Charlotte, USA (solo)
Andy Warhol: Pop Politics, Currier Museum of Art, Syracuse, USA (solo)
Warhol Presents, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, USA
Andy Warhol: Polaroid Portraits, Galerie Clic, St. Bartheleny, French West Indies (solo)
2008
Andy Warhol, Stereo Types, Galerie Daniel Blau, Munich, Germany (solo)
Warhol: 15 Min/24 FPS, University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach, USA (solo)
Andy Warhol: Still-Life Polaroids, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
Andy Warhol by Andy Warhol, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Norway (solo)
The Eternal Now: Warhol and the Factory: ’63-68, Ikon Gallery Birmingham, England (solo)
Rapid Exposure: Warhol in Series, Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, USA (solo)
Andy Warhol’s Silver Clouds, Loyala University Museum of Art, Chicago, USA (solo)
Canis Major: Warhol’s Dogs and Cats (and other party animals), The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, USA (solo)
Andy Warhol Retrospective, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia (solo)
Self-Portrait exhibition, La Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain
Andy Warhol: Larger than Life, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada (solo)
Other Voices, Other Rooms, The Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Silent Spring: Warhol’s Endangered Species and Vanishing Animals, Morris Museum, Morristown, USA (solo)
Andy Warhol, Centro Cultural de la Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru Lima, Peru (solo)
Andy Warhol Exhibit, New World of Coca-Cola Museum, Atlanta, USA (solo)
2007
Andy Warhol Retrospective, The Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, Scotland (solo)
Andy Warhol Disaster Prints, Kampa Museum Prague, Czech Republic (solo)
Pop Art 1960’s – 2000’s, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
Andy Warhol Presents, University Art Museum, Santa Barbara, USA (solo)
Andy Warhol’s Dream America, Toledo Museum of Art Toledo, USA (solo)
Andy Warhol – Shadows and other signs of life, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France (solo)
Portraits, Jablonka Galerie, Berlin, Germany
Factory Work: Warhol, Wyeth, and Basquiat, Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, USA
Andy Warhol and Minimal Art, Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart, Germany (solo)
Andy Warhol Retrospective, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea (solo)
Warhola Becomes Warhol – Andy Warhol: Early Work, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, USA (solo)
Pop Goes The West: Featuring Roy Lichtenstein: American Indian Encounters and Andy Warhol’s, Cowboys and Indians Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art, Indianapolis, USA
Andy Warhol’s Dream America, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, USA (solo)
Prints of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back again), Kampa Museum Prague, Czech Republic (solo)
Time Capsule 64, The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, USA
2006
Warhol’s World, Hauser & Wirth, London, England
Man’s Best Friend, Lococo Fine Art, St. Louis, USA
Andy Warhol: Vanishing Animals, Medium SARL, St. Barthelemy, French West Indies (solo)
Andy Warhol-Drawings, JGM. Galerie, Paris, France
Skulls, Galerie Andrea Caratsch, Zurich, Switzerland
2005
Andy Warhol Self-Portraits, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Scotland (solo)
Small Drawings of Children & Dolls, Jablonka Galerie, Cologne, Germany
2004
Andy Warhol – Selbstportraits, Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany (solo)
Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz, Liechtenstein
The Late Andy Warhol – The Late Work, Museum kunst palast, Dusseldorf, Germany (solo)
Andy Warhol: Motion Pictures, Kunstwerke, Berlin, Germany (solo)
Andy Warhol, Anton Kern Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
Andy Warhol – LATE PAINTINGS, Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles, USA (solo)
2003
Andy Warhol – The Time Capsules, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany (solo)
Warhol – Screen Tests, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA (solo)
Ladies & Gentlemen, Sex Parts & Torsos, Jablonka Galerie, Cologne, Germany
Cosmos, Colleges and Drawings, Jablonka Galerie, Cologne, Germany
E. Fischl, M. Barceló, F. Clemente, A. Katz, P. Taaffe, A. Warhol, Jablonka Galerie, Cologne; TEFAF, Maastricht, Germany
2002
Portrait Drawings/Sherrie Levine: Skulls, Jablonka Galerie, Cologne, Germany
2001
Retrospective, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany
2000
Headschots, Jablonka Galerie, Cologne, Germany
1999
Modern Madonna, Jablonka Galerie, Cologne, Germany
Photography, The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, USA; Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany (solo)
1998
Reframing Andy Warhol: Constructing American Myths, Heroes and Cultural Icons, The Art Gallery, University of Maryland, College Park, USA
Knives, Jablonka Galerie, Cologne, Germany
1997
Egg Paintings, Jablonka Galerie, Cologne, Germany
1993
Andy Warhol: Abstract, Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland; Östereichisches Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna, Östereich; IVAM, Valencia, Spain (solo)
1992
Andy Warhol Polaroids 1971 – 1986, Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, USA (travelled to London, England and Paris, France) (solo)
1991
Andy Warhol’s Video and Television, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA (solo)
1990
Andy Warhol: Films, IVAM, Valencia, Spain (solo)
Andy Warhol: Cars-The Last Pictures, Kunstmuseum, Berne, Switzerland (solo)
The Prints of Andy Warhol, Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art, New York, USA (solo)
1989
Andy Warhol: A Retrospective, Hayward Gallery, London, England (solo)
Andy Warhol: Shadow Paintings, Gagosian Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
1986
Andy Warhol – Neue Grafik Details of Renaissance Paintings, Heinz Holtmann, Cologne, Germany
1983
Andy Warhol, Heinz Holtmann, Cologne, Germany
1982
Andy Warhol – Neue Bilder und Grafik, Heinz Holtmann, Cologne, Germany
1976
Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
1970
Museum of Contempary Art, Chicago, USA
Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Musée d´Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
Museum of Art, Pasadena, USA
1969
Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany
1968
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
1967
Galerie Rudolf Zwirner, Cologne, Germany
Ileana Sonnabend, Paris, France
1966
Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, USA
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, USA
1965
Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, USA
1964
Ileana Sonnabend, Paris, France
Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, USA
Stable Gallery, New York, USA
1963
Fetus Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
1962
Fetus Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
1952
Andy Warhol: Fifteen Drawings Based on the Writings of Truman Capote, Hugo Gallery, New York, USA (solo)